John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (eBook)

The Poems and Lucina's Rape

Keith Walker, Nicholas Fisher (Herausgeber)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-65151-3 (ISBN)

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Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits.

• Includes the text of Lucina’s Rape, Rochester’s adaptation of Fletcher’s revenge tragedy Valentinian, in a text that readily identifies Rochester’s revisions
• Presents the poems in versions that were current during Rochester’s lifetime, allowing the reader to experience the poems as Rochester’s contemporaries did
• Incorporates insights and discoveries made over the last twenty-five years and texts of manuscripts that previously were unavailable for study

Nicholas Fisher is an associate research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has co-edited a performing edition of the early settings of Rochester’s songs, Songs to Phillis (1999), and has edited a collection of essays on the poet, That Second Bottle (2000).  He is currently completing a bibliography of the printed editions of Rochester's work.
Keith Walker taught at University College, London from 1966 to 1996. Over the course of his notable career he produced distinguished editions of the works of many of the major Restoration and Eighteenth-Century writers, including The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), on which this new edition is based.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations viii

Note on This Edition ix

Acknowledgments x

Chronology xii

Introduction xvii

Further Reading xxviii

Abbreviations xxxii

Poems

Juvenilia 1

Love Poems 5

Translations 56

Prologues and Epilogues 61

Satires and Lampoons 68

Poems to Mulgrave and Scroope 111

Epigrams, Impromptus, Jeux d'esprit, etc. 131

Poems Less Securely Attributed to Rochester 138

Lucina's Rape or the Tragedy of Vallentinian 161

Index of Proper Names 253

Index of Titles and First Lines 257

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"At last, an indispensable edition of Rochester for all
scholars and teachers of the Restoration period. The drama
Valentinian/Lucina's Rape is literally a revelation, over
one thousand lines of authentic Rochester now visible in bold
type."--James Grantham Turner, University
of California, Berkeley

"Fisher's edition of Rochester is not only a fitting
and loving tribute to two great Rochesterians, Keith Walker and
Harold Love: it is a considerable work of independent scholarship,
providing an unmodernized text fully informed by the most
authoritative manuscript sources and intelligently annotated. A
delicious bonus is the inclusion of Rochester's version of
John Fletcher's tragedy Valentinian entitled
Lucina's Rape. Rochester is one of the most
influential writers not to have appeared extensively in print in
his own lifetime. This important edition enables us to understand
that influence and evaluate it anew."--Brean
Hammond, University of Nottingham

"For scholars of seventeenth-century libertine culture and
poetry lovers with a penchant for old-school smut, Rochester's
verse holds abiding interest. Walker's and Fisher's edition makes
these verses accessible to a broad audience, their exhaustive
annotations and introductory material offering contextual
information invaluable to readers new to this author, or indeed to
the seventeenth century." (M/C Reviews, October 2010)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 17th Century English Literature • 17th century poetry • Englische Literatur / 17. Jhd. • Grossbritannien /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte • Harold Love • John Fletcher • Literature • Literaturwissenschaft • long 18th century • restoration • valentinian • Vallentinian
• ISBN-10: 1-118-65151-0 / 1118651510
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-65151-3 / 9781118651513